Perpetual-reminder system.



No. 704,l00. Patented July 8, |902.

B. FIROSH.

PERPETUAL REMINDER SYSTEM.

(Application med Feb. 2s, 1902.)

(No Model.)

Jim/@ UNITED STATES vPATENT OEEICE.

BERTHOLD PIROSI'I, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PERPETUAL-REIVIINDER SYSTEM.

SPECIFICATION fOlrding pali Of Letters :Patent NO. 704,100, dated July 8, 1902. Application filed February 28,1902. Serial No. 96,092. (No model.)

To all whom, it 772,607/ concern.'

Be it known that LBERTHOLD PrRosH,a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Perpetual-Reminder Systems, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in a system of and appliances for keepinginconvenient form and in such a manner as to be called to the attention of the user at the proper time reminders of various kinds; and my invention is especially adapted for the use of those who frequently have successive transactions with the same person.

A particular object of my invention is to provide a filing or memorandum system which shall be compact, convenient, simple, and reliable. These and such other advantages as may appear are attained by the use of the system hereinafter described in connection with the appliances shown in the accompanying drawings, in which-r Figure l is a plan view of a pocket tiling o r memorandum case. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the same folded in convenient form to be put in a vest-pocket. Fig. shows one side of a card for use in connection with such memorandum-case, and Fig. 4 shows the opposite side of the same card.

The tiling-case comprises a series of pockets consisting of one for each day of any given period or cycle of time, which is repeated at fixed intervals. The filing-case shown in the drawings is prepared for use in connection with periods or cycles of one week, each pocket indicating one day of the week and being correspondingly lettered or marked. The principle of my system and devices, however, is adaptable for use in connection with periods of varying length, such as weekly, monthly, quarterly, or the like; but it will be found that periods of one week form the most convenient basis upon which to operate. A iling-case containing one pocket'or receptacle for each such period may be made in any suitable shape or form; but I prefer constructing it as shown in the drawings, in which it consists of a flexible back, to which are attached the pockets, so that the case may be folded or rolled in small compass, as shown in Fig. 2, and conveniently carried in the users pocket.

In connection with the iiling-case I use reminder-cards', upon one side of which are indicated V`the days of the month from l to 31, inclusive, and preferably also blanks for inserting anygiven year or month. Upon the opposite side may be arranged convenient blanks for the name, address, dac., of any person. A convenient form is shown in Fig. 3, in which blanks are provided for the name, address, and telephone-number of a caller and for the hour at which he called, this form of card being especially for use by a physicians office-attendant for noting calls made during the physicians absence.

For a physicians practice, forinstance, my improved appliances would be used as follows: vAssuming that a patient sends a call for the physician during his absence, an attendant notes all desired information on one face of a card, such as shown in Fig. 3, and puts it aside until the physician reaches his office. The physician then puts the card in the pocket for that day, and upon making his round of calls he is reminded by the cards in that pocket of all patients upon whom he should call that day. Having reached the patients house and made the call, he crosses from the back of the card, as shown in Fig. 4, the day of the, month upon which the call was made, thereby having a convenient memorandum of calls made, and if he is to call again upon another day-say the following Monday-he puts the card in the pocket for Monday` and need give the matter no further thought until when Monday arrives he looks through the cards in that pock to see with whom he has appointments for that day. It', however, his next call is to be made more than a week later, he iirst checks or otherwise indicates upon the back of the card vthe day of the month upon which such neXt'call is to be made, and then puts the memorandumcard into the pocket indicating the day of the Week upon which that day of the month will fall. When next he examines that pocket, he finds on reference to the back thereof that his next call on that particular patient is not due until some later week, and the card is returned to its pocket and no further attention paid thereto until the next Week rolls around.

From the foregoing explanation it is evident that it is possible with my system and appliances to keep track of practicallyan indeiinite number of appointments with the same person in rotation by means of suitable check-marks after acard has once been made out for that person, although for practical purposes it Will be often found that a card bearing the data (shown in Figs. 3and 4) will answer all requirements, and cards with even less data can be used satisfactorily.

While I have explained the use of my system in connection with a physicians practice, it is evident that it is adaptable for use in a Wide iield wherever successive appointments,

payments, letters, calls, or the like are to be made upon the s-ame person or at the same place or in the same connection, and I comtemplate such varied uses of my invention, and so do not limit myself to its application to any one line of business.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A reminder system comprising a series of receptacles, being one receptacle for each unit of time of a recurring cycle, and a plurality of memorandum-blanks adapted to be led in said receptacles, substantially as described.

2. A reminder system comprising apocketcase provided with one pocket for each day of a recurring succession of days, and a plurality of reminder-cards adapted to be temporarilyled in any of said pockets, substan-V tially as described.

3. A reminder system comprising a pocketcase provided with one pocket for each day of a recurring succession of'days, and a plurality of reminder-cards bearing the gures 1 to 31, inclusive; and having space for memoranda to be Written thereon, substantially as described.

4. A reminder system comprising a pocketcase consisting of a flexible back provided on its face With sevenpockets, and a plurality of reminder-cards bearing on one face the figures l to 3l, inclusive, and having on their opposite face space for memoranda to be Written thereon, each of said cards being adapted to be filed in each of said pockets in succession, substantially as described.

BERTHOLD PIROSH.

Witnesses:

O. R. BARNETT, M. E. SHIELDs. 

